by Admin | May 22, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
My name is Corne Rautenbach, but these days everybody knows me as the OneLungBandit. In February 2014 my left lung was removed because of a carcinoid tumor. One of my heroes, Dr Neville Govender, discovered the tumor. He is a Pulmonologist at Cape Town Medi-Clinic. If...
by Admin | May 2, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
This is a story about Matt who’s here today by the grace of God and the compassion of a family he’ll never know. My son had a heart transplant nearly 17 years ago. He never talks about it so I will tell my part of it. In the July school holidays in 2001 Matt went...
by Admin | Apr 10, 2018 | Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
In 2005 at 13 months of age, Jarryd received his Gift of Life, a liver transplant, at the Red Cross Children’s hospital. He was just a couple of weeks away from death. This was our reality, when our miracle happened. Now, at 14 years’ old, he is a...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Matthew's Transplant, Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
We were interviewed again for the SABC radio stations. This time post Matthew’s heart and double lung Transplant. Play the audio file below: LISTEN : Hero777 SABC Interview with Matthew by Minoshni Pillay...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2018 | Matthew's Transplant, Organ Donor Awareness, Organ Donor Stories
Matthew came home from the hospital on a Wednesday, so Wednesday became “check-up day”. With the first week at home being a “no go zone” for visitors, the first trip back to the hospital was Matthew’s first excursion post transplant, and he loved the idea of seeing...